Registry of Open Access Repositories: Difference between revisions

The '''Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR)''' is a searchable international database indexing the creation, location and growth of [[open access]] [[institutional repository|institutional repositories]] and their contents. ROAR was created by [[EPrints]] at [[University of Southampton]] in 2003.<ref>Brody, T, Carr, L, Hey, JMN, Brown, A, Hitchcock, S (2007) PRONOM-ROAR: [http://www.ijdc.net/index.php/ijdc/article/viewFile/53/25 Adding Format Profiles to a Repository Registry to Inform Preservation Services]. ''The International Journal of Digital Curation'' 2(2)</ref><ref>McDowell, CS (2007) [http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september07/mcdowell/09mcdowell.html Evaluating Institutional Repository Deployment in American Academe Since Early 2005]: Repositories by the Numbers D-Lib 13 (9/10)</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Xia |first=J. |year=2011 |title=An anthropological emic-etic perspective on open access practices |journal=Journal of Documentation |volume=67 |issue=1 |pages=75–94 |doi=10.1108/00220411111105461 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Krishnamurthy |first=M. |last2=Kemparaju |first2=T. D. |year=2011 |title=Institutional repositories in Indian universities and research institutes |journal=Program: electronic library & information systems |volume=45 |issue=2 |pages=185–198 |doi= }}</ref> It began as the ''Institutional Archives Registry'' and was renamed '' Registry of Open Access Repositories'' in 2006.<ref name=fos2006>{{cite web |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20180212235633/http://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2006/02/two-eprints-services-renamed.html |url= http://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2006/02/two-eprints-services-renamed.html |deadurl=yes |archivedate=12 February 2018 |title=Open Access News |date=22 February 2006 }}</ref> To date, over 3,000 institutional and cross-institutional repositories have been registered.<ref>{{cite web|title=Browse by Repository Type|url=http://roar.eprints.org/view/type/|website=ROAR|accessdate=22 October 2015}}</ref>

ROAR's companion '''Registry of Open Access Repository Mandates and Policies''' (ROARMAP), is a searchable international database of policies. It charts the growth of [[open access mandate]]s and policies adopted by universities, research institutions and research funders that require their researchers to provide open access to their [[peer review|peer-reviewed]] research article output by depositing it in an open access [[institutional repository|repository]].

It was created by EPrints at University of Southampton in 2003.<ref>Moskovkin, VM (2008) [http://dspace.bsu.edu.ru/jspui/bitstream/123456789/4853/1/Moskovkin_Institutional%20policies.pdf Institutional policies for open access to the results of scientific research] . ''Scientific and Technical Information Processing''. '''35''' (6) 269–273, {{doi|10.3103/S0147688208060075}}</ref><ref>Sale, AHJ (2007) [http://eprints.utas.edu.au/410/ The patchwork mandate] . ''D-Lib Magazine'', '''13''' (1/2). {{ISSN|1082-9873}}</ref><ref>Manikandan, S; N Isai Vani (2010) "[http://www.jpgmonline.com/article.asp?issn=0022-3859;year=2010;volume=56;issue=2;spage=154;epage=156;aulast=Manikandan Restricting access to publications from funded research: Ethical issues and solutions.]" ''Journal of Postgraduate Medicine'' '''56'''(2): 154–156</ref><ref>Lyons, Charles; H Austin Booth (2010) "An Overview of Open Access in the Fields of Business and Management". ''Journal of Business & Finance Librarianship'' '''16'''(2): 1080124 {{doi|10.1080/08963568.2011.554786}}</ref><ref>Hurrell, A. C. (2012) [http://www.bclabrowser.ca/bcla2/index.php/browser/article/view/390/553 Open access policies on scholarly publishing in the university context]. BCLA Browser: Linking the Library Landscape, 4(3).</ref> The ''Institutional Self-Archiving Policy Registry'' became the ''Registry of Open Access Repository Material Archiving Policies'' in 2006, then the ''Registry of Open Access Repositories Mandatory Archiving Policies'', and then the ''Registry of Open Access Repository Mandates and Policies'' around 2014.<ref name=fos2006 /><ref>{{cite web |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141227204605/http://roarmap.eprints.org |archivedate= 27 December 2014 |url=http://roarmap.eprints.org |title=Roarmap.eprints.org }}</ref>

As of October 2015, open-access mandates have been adopted by more than 520 universities and more than 75 research funders worldwide.<ref>{{cite web|title=Browse by Policymaker Type|url=http://roarmap.eprints.org/view/policymaker_type/|website=ROARMAP|accessdate=22 October 2015}}</ref> ROARMAP mandates are classified in terms of strength and effectiveness<ref>Gargouri, Y., Lariviere, V., Gingras, Y., Brody, T., Carr, L., & Harnad, S. (2012). [https://arxiv.org/pdf/1210.8174 Testing the Finch Hypothesis on Green OA Mandate Ineffectiveness]. arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.8174.</ref> in MELIBEA<ref>[MELIBEA directory and estimator of institutional open-access policies http://www.accesoabierto.net/politicas/default.php ]</ref> As of October 2015, open-access mandates have been adopted by more than 520 universities and more than 75 research funders worldwide.<ref>{{cite web|title=Browse by Policymaker Type|url=http://roarmap.eprints.org/view/policymaker_type/|website=ROARMAP|accessdate=22 October 2015}}</ref>